Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing
struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment.
Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living
conditions to individual experience (which existing political
institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro
Almodovar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to
demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society.
Kappelhoff applies the Deleuzean practice of "thinking in images"
to his analysis of films and incorporates the approaches of Jacques
Ranciere and Richard Rorty, who see politics in the permanent
reconfiguration of poetic forms. This enables him to conceptualize
film as a medium that continually renews the audiovisual spaces and
temporalities through which audiences confront reality.
Revitalizing the reading of films by Visconti, Fassbinder, Kubrick,
Friedkin, and others, Kappelhoff affirms cinema's historical
significance while discovering its engagement with politics as a
realm of experience.
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